Can I transfer Outlook Express to my external Hard drive?

IMHO Outlook Express is a poor piece of software! However you can backup the data. Have a look here. (Step C should be done on your external hard drive). Or use an backup software such as http://www.genie-soft.com/products/oeb/default.html.

Your other option is to move to Thunderbird. See here for instructions on how to install and import your OE data. Use Mozbackup to backup your Thunderbird profile.

Steve

Your PC will crash.

'P' stands for 'prone to', 'c' stands for 'crashing'.

It also stands for 'Piece of Crap'.

I run Mac at home and endure PCs at work. It's crashed more times in a week than my Mac has in a year.

Get a mac, unless you play games or have some piece of software from Windows you can't bare to be without.

joe90

Really, really useful post.

(By the way, why don't you get a decent system administrator at your workplace? The good ones spend most of their time drinking coffee with their feet up on the desk...)

Deane

Wouldn't it be great if some one could mention PCs without some MAC owning dick making snide remarks.
Give it a try. Do you really need to keep harping on about your overpriced computers.

Do you have Microsoft Outlook? I comes as part of the Office suite. If you do, Microsoft Outlook is the full program that Outlook Express is a lightweight freebie of. You can transfer everything from Outlook Express into Outlook automatically as you install it. From Outlook you can export each folder or group of folders into a safe place as a backup, and install them again or add them to a laptop setup really easily. This way I back up my contacts and emails every week.
Otherwise if you must do it manually with Express:

Click on the TOOLS Menu and select OPTIONS.
Click the MAINTENANCE Tab and then click on Store Folder.
You now see the location of your Email Folder.
Highlite the Folder Location and press CTRL+C to copy the location.
Click Cancel and then Cancel again to close all boxes.
Click the Windows Start button and the click Run. In the open box press CTRL+V to paste the mail location, then click OK.
You should now have a window containing you e-mail database *.dbx files.
From the top Menu click EDIT click Select All.
On the top Menu again click COPY. Now close the window.
Open Windows Explorer, click FILE / NEW and then FOLDER.
Type a name for the folder and hit ENTER.
Double click the Folder you just created to open it. From the EDIT Menu select PASTE. Close the window.
You have now backed up your email messages.

Rasher = helpful
Joe90 = not.

Get a mac, unless you play games or have some piece of software from Windows you can't bare to be without.[/QUOTE]

Or unless you travel a lot and don't want to lug around one of those horribly overweight appologies for a laptop that Apple produce.



Regards,

Willy.

quote:

I run Mac at home and endure PCs at work. It's crashed more times in a week than my Mac has in a year.

Article here has something different to say. It seems Macs are worse now, much worse.

Complaints that the the power goes off in iBook and the screen goes blank after just over one year's use have been made worldwide.

quote:

Originally posted by joe90:
Your PC will crash.

'P' stands for 'prone to', 'c' stands for 'crashing'.

It also stands for 'Piece of Crap'.

I run Mac at home and endure PCs at work. It's crashed more times in a week than my Mac has in a year.

Get a mac, unless you play games or have some piece of software from Windows you can't bare to be without.

The PC is around 7 years old (maybe a little less) has occasionally been serviced (I blow the dust out of the case with a hairdryer). I think in that time its had a new fan and a couple of other bits and pieces. My wife works from home and uses it constantly. It's only ever off from about midnight to 8am. It is old and struggling. I run XP and have free anti virus from AVG. It has only recently started having problems........ and am ordering a new one with more updated components and dvd rewriter etc.

I wish our Dishwasher was as efficient and such value for money. The PCs pretty bog standard and about the best value for money piece of kit we have in the house.

Yeah I know us PC users are dull cyber geeks rather than cool media types but hey ho

quote:

Originally posted by acad tsunami:
Rasher = helpful
Joe90 = not.

= Helpful



= Not

Yup, it gets my vote too.

Steve and Rasher thanks I now know what to do to back up my emails without buying a Mac

Rasher

I did what you said and it worked brilliantly until I tried opening the copied files. It said it didn't know what program to open it with, I cocked up and pressed Abode Photoshop Elements and now the back up only opens in Photoshop (or doesn't as the case may be). I've tried deleting (it won't) and i've tried doing the whole thing again and the dbx files still come up with Photoshop icons.

Sorry - help

Double click My Computer
Click tools
Folder options
File types
Go down to the extension causing trouble (.dbx ?) Click on it
Click change
Select the right bloody prog this time
Click on Apply
Click on OK

Put Van on the CD player - and reeeeelaaax.

Which bloody program do I open it with - Outlook Express isn't there

Confus ed Diccus

Right mouse click on one of the files and select "Open with".

If Outlook Express isn't shown as an option click browse. This will open a program files folder. Double click on the Outlook Express folder. Select "msimn".

Be sure to tick "always use the selected program to open this type of file"

Might work.

Regards,

Willy.

You gotta laugh, eh!?
You now know where the files are and how to find them in the future. All you need to do is keep them safe for if you ever need them, and replace them in a new installation of Outlook Express if needed. You will have trouble accessing them as a readable file anyway, so forget it for now. Just use the Windows transfer wizard when you get your new PC and all will be installed automatically. As long as you have the backups, that is all you need to do for now. Chill.

Willy

I'm impressed. Sorted

thanks Steve and Rsaher

Regards
Suitably Sov Blocd Diccus

Rasher

I'm chilled now

Cheers Bud

Diccus

I'd quote you all but it would take too long.

I'm sorry - really. I wasn't being helpful but I couldn't help myself.

But, in my defence, having used BOTH extensively, I'd have to give the Mac the thumbs up for reliability.

I can appreciate that people don't like Windows bashing per se, but how many of the defenders of Windows have actually used Macs for a decent period of time like I have?

My wife HATED macs and used them for years and was forced to relearn on macs after changing jobs and won't go back.

I also have a friend - a trained IT hardware and software technician - who sells MediaPCs and stuff to hang off PCs (his own company) and he let his wife buy a mac for their office at home and he's astounded at how simple it is to do things on it, especially networking.

Also, I don't know how many jokes I have in my computer based on PC bashing - you know the sort - not one Mac bashing. Although I did read Ken Kessler calling Mac users as idiots too stupid to live. Perhaps has was being purposely ironic?

I work on PC's because I'm an engineer, and the programs I use are barely out of DOS. I started on a Mac and loved the way I could drag a folder with a program in it somewhere, run it, drag it somewhere else or delete it without having to "install" it each time. It is true that Diccus wouldn't have had this problem with a Mac, but it just wasn't particularly helpful to say so Joe. I'm make a mental note to group you with Garyi.

Joe90- Your tech guys are crap, not windows. You use windows at work because Mac's can't run many industry standard apps.

I use my PC extensively at work- I'm an IT analyst so my PC takes a lot of shit from day to day. A part of my job is trying to replicate crashes that users have had in applications.

I have only rebooted my pc three times in the last year- and thats only when I installed apps that required it. Never has it crashed so that it needed a reboot.

I'm using XP at home right now- and guess what, I can't even remember when the last time it crashed was. It certainly wasn't within the last year.

Noopz what apps can't you run on a Mac - apart from viruses which don't count.

I'm always grateful for Apple because they are one of the few companies that has pushed computing forward - and OS X is the only desktop OS that I'd use instead of my trusty Amiga OS.

I'd hate to have to write applications for Windoze, it's so complicated and does so little - it remains one of the computer industries great millstones along side SQL. Perhaps Vista is an improvement, I've no idea or is it just Windoze with a new interface.

Who thought of DLLs and the Registry - oh well we have what we have and need to make the best of it.

BTW - I've never experienced a crash on OS X. My oldest XServer has run for several years non-stop - being used by a major financial company.

Our company mail server (Exchange) crashes regularly, whereas the previous system that I helped build on a Unix platform ran for 10 years until some bright spark decided we'd go Microsoft.

My own experience with MS products has been an unhappy one - hence my preference for Apple and Sun.

Actually to be fair I am pretty much out of the whole mac vs pc debate everyone seems happy where they are.

If there is an opportunity to wind up deane F though, which seems terribly easy, I am up for that.

Angry-garyi, like most Mac users, decided long ago that Apple products were actually a way to have Jesus in their house.

Now, every time somebody confesses to doing word processing or surfing the internet on Satan's Spawn, he has to remind people that they might get infested by demons and that he has found the way, the truth, and the life through using Apple products that came to us through Steve Jobs - God's IT man on Earth...

The question on my lips now is - exactly who does Ivor T represent in the spiritual realm of high end Hifi...?